The Donetsk Clan (Ukrainian: Донецький клан, romanized: Donetskyi klan; Russian: Донецкий клан, romanized: Donetsky klan), also called the Donetsk Mafia,[2] the Donetsk Family,[3] or simply "The Family",[3] was a group of Ukrainian oligarchs and members of the Ukrainian mafia active between the late Soviet period and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, when the clan collapsed. Emerging from the nomenklatura of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, the Donetsk Clan formed one of the three main groupings of oligarchs during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma, alongside Viktor Medvedchuk's Kyiv Seven and Kuchma's own Dnipropetrovsk Mafia. In Kuchma's second term, the clan outplayed the other two groups, leading to the political rise of Viktor Yanukovych. Following Yanukovych's fall from power, the Donetsk Clan dissolved, though its members remained prominent in Ukraine.
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The DonetskClan (Ukrainian: Донецький клан, romanized: Donetskyi klan; Russian: Донецкий клан, romanized: Donetsky klan), also called the Donetsk Mafia...
government in 2002 and paved a way into Ukrainian politics for the powerful "DonetskClan". In late 2004, the Party of Regions was involved in the creation of...
presidency of Leonid Kuchma, alongside Kuchma's own Dnipropetrovsk Clan and the DonetskClan of Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor Yanukovych, among others. The Kyiv...
members of the DonetskClan. These events precipitated the conflict between the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia, led by Kuchma, and the DonetskClan, led by Zvyahilsky...
for economic domination with the emerging DonetskClan, an industrial and political group based in Donetsk and led by Viktor Yanukovych. Lazarenko has...
Vasyl Dzharty and Anatolii Mohyliov were associated with the "Makiivka-Donetskclan." In September 2010, the party was planning to sign a memorandum on cooperation...
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definitions of the region's extent. It is now most commonly defined as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.[citation needed] The historical coal mining...
several "Clans" in Ukrainian politics grouped around businessmen and politicians from particular Ukrainian mayor cities; the "DonetskClan" (Rinat Akhmetov...
election, the party won 29 seats predominantly in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts. American lobbyist Paul Manafort...
Mafia and emerging DonetskClan, both of whom were more supportive of Russification than other political clans in Ukraine. The Kharkiv Clan was pushed out...
Regions as "long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs" and called Akhmetov the "godfather" of the DonetskClan. In 2014, Rinat Akhmetov's support...
leader from the Kharkiv Clan, and the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia dominated Ukrainian politics until being replaced by the DonetskClan in the 2000s. In 1968,...
Viktor Yanukovych money laundering scandals with large support from the DonetskClan, which was formed by Akhat Bragin and headed by Rinat Akhmetov after...
Routledge. pp. 82–381. ISBN 978-0-203-96228-2. OCLC 86175822. The clan from Donetsk PART I Archived 13 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, The Ukrainian...
entering national politics, Yanukovych was the Governor of his native Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. He was simultaneously the Chairman of the oblast's...
Soviet republic, located where South Ossetia should be. It was inspired by Donetsk People's Republic. The capital city is Verdansk. Later invaded by Al-Qatala...
little resistance. According to a source close to the leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic, the convoy bound for Moscow comprised approximately...
murder on ex-premier Lazarenko, Kyiv Post (December 3, 2010) The clan from Donetsk PART I Archived 2013-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, The Ukrainian Weekly...
in the Zlivka necropolis near the village of Ilichevki, the district of Donetsk, of brachiocranic Caucasoid with small East Asian admixtures but with Bulgar...
breakaway states of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine as well as recognizing Russia's unilateral annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk...
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